"Cannot Find File" When Object Clicked to Run Interactively
Article ID: 134867
Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 95 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q134867
SYMPTOMS
When you click a drawn object or imported graphic during a slide show to
run it, you may get the following error message:
(application) cannot find the file (c:\(path)\(filename.xxx)
CAUSE
With some computers, long filenames can cause this problem. When you
configured the object's interactive settings, you may have specified the
location of this program with long filenames.
RESOLUTION
If you encounter this problem, you can do one of the following:
- Select the object and click Interactive Settings on the Tools
menu.
- In the Run Program box, change the path so that it uses the MS-DOS
short filenames. For example:
c:\office\winword\winword.exe c:\mydocu~1\docume~1.doc
c:\office\winword\winword.exe "c:\my documents\document.doc"
STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem, and we will post new information
here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
Additional query words: 7.00 ppt95 Powerpnt Interactive settings Long file names
Keywords: kbinterop kbprb KB134867